Originally Posted By cheesybaby P.L. Travers was a weird super-stickler, that is true. Did you see how she insisted that the Bank's house in the movie should look EXACTLY as it did in real life? Why would that possibly be important to 99.9% of the movie's audience? If she were alive today she would probably insist that Pinocchio's Daring Journey be digitally removed so that 1961 Fantasyland in the movie would look EXACTLY as it did in real life. Why would that possibly be important to 99.9% of the movie's audience?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If she were alive today, I think Mr Banks would have been a very different movie. While possibly not as much of a feel-good story, it would have at least gotten the big facts correct (and probably would have had quite a few nitpicky details too)
Originally Posted By oc_dean ^^^ I was waiting for someone to make that ironic parallel about both films. Both films do not represent their original content as closely as one may think.
Originally Posted By oc_dean As for the '83 Fantasyland, and Main Gate scenes, irritating .. as some people do notice these things, yes. Was it the "main character" throughout the film, no? So therefore .. we just let it slide. Here's another "Movie shot in OC, with Tom Hanks" bit: In "That thing you do" ... film crews took out the handicap ramps at selected street crossings at the Glassel & Chapman Ave. traffic circle in Orange. To make it authentic "1964" .. and re-installed them, when the film crews wrapped up. (Simple plywood covering? Re-cemented? That I'd like to know) Little things OTHER studios would do .. but not something Disney would do with their own property.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Little things OTHER studios would do<< Again, that was a MUCH bigger budget movie. You keep forgetting that.
Originally Posted By oc_dean To be honest, I never saw That Thing You Do, nor am I familiar with it's budget .. but I remember reading an article in the OC Register back in '96 about what they did to the sidewalks.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA oc_dean -- 'That Thing You Do' is worth seeing. It's charming, well-directed and just fun. See it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm surprised that That Thing You Do was a bigger budget than Mr Banks. I guess there were some big crowd scenes for the various concerts, but it hardly felt like they were going for a big blockbuster. Compared to Mr Banks, which has an A-list cast, none of the actors well known at the time. It has a lot of charm and is really fun, but it just didn't have that same "we spent a lot of money on this movie" feeling that you get seeing Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks walking up a mostly-60's Main Street USA And now I have that song stuck in my head. Thanks, guys!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <oc_dean -- 'That Thing You Do' is worth seeing. It's charming, well-directed and just fun. See it.> I agree. And, of course, it has a brief scene set in Disneyland! One of the band members, on his first trip to CA, just has to go to DL. So they show him cavorting there. I'm pretty sure (though it's been a while since I've seen it) that they bothered to paint a bobsled in pre-1978 colors (though they still used a dual sled rather than the single sleds that would have been in use at the time.) A little thing. In the context of the movie, a VERY little thing. But that non-Disney studio bothered to do it...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Okay, I had to look it up. CONFIRMED! They bothered to re-paint the sleds, but apparently had to use the tandems then in use. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://mousetroop.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-matterhorns-movie-star.html">http://mousetroop.blogspot.com...tar.html</a>
Originally Posted By cheesybaby In the words of the fictionalized Robert Sherman, when Mrs. Travers insists that Mr. Banks not have a mustache: "Does it matter?!"
Originally Posted By Brad "Here's another "Movie shot in OC, with Tom Hanks" bit: In "That thing you do" ..." Ironic because that film ALSO shows a scene inside DL!
Originally Posted By u k fan This was on in the UK at Christmas and is well worth a watch. It's a good companion piece to the movie!!!
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk I am with you CuriousConstance. I figured the movie would not have much fact to it. I went to it just looking for Disney. The movie was better than I expected and I even cried. I was very excited that they went to Disneyland together. I think the Carousel scene was important in that Walt did pretty much do everything he agreed not to do.
